Firefighters spent the night working hot spots at a fire that burned about 300 acres near Cunningham Lake on Wednesday.

Firefighters spent the night working hot spots at a fire that burned about 300 acres near Cunningham Lake on Wednesday.

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Updated: 3:11 PM CST Jan 30, 2014

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WEBVTT LIVE WITH A BREAKING UPDATE, ON THIS áBIG BRUSH FIRE NEAR CUNNINGHAM LAKE. GOOD EVENING, I'M BRANDI PETERSEN. I'M ROB MCCARTNEY. FIREFIGHTERS ARE STILL ON SCENE AT THIS HOUR.. AND THEY WILL BE ALL NIGHT. THESE AERIAL PHOTOS SHOW US WHY. THREE HUNDRED ACRES BURNED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE LAKE. VERN GOFF TOOK THESE PICTURES AS HE FLEW OVER THE FIRE NEAR HIGHWAY 36 AND 96TH STREET. LOOK HOW CLOSE THE FIRE GOT TO HOMES IN THE LOWER LEFT PART OF THIS PHOTO. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN'S DAVE ROBERTS SPOKE WITH ONE OF THOSE HOMEOWNERS TONIGHT.. DAVE JOINS US LIVE. IT WAS A TENSE SITUATION FOR ABOUT A DOZEN HOMEOWNERS WHO LIVE IN THE AREA OF THIS FIRE. LUCKILY FIRE FIGHTERS...PUSHED THE 40 FOOT HIGH FLAMES INTO THE VALLEY AND CONTAINED THE BLAZE TO THE MARSHLAND. AT 4:15 P-M... THE CALL CAME IN AS A BRUSH FIRE. BY THE TIME IRVINGTON FIRE FIGHTERS ARRIVED... IT WAS MORE MORE LIKE A WILDFIRE.SUSAN MILES, WITNESS: It's amazing but I know it's a fireTHE FIRE ON ICE...DREW IN PLENTY OF SPECTATORS(susan miles, witness: The deer first ran towards the fire then they came to a dead stop turn around and ran that way)FIRE FIGHTERS FOCUSED ON THE PEOPLE LIVING NEAR BURNING BRUSH. (kyle tonnies, asst.chief irvington fire: you got a couple of good gusts of wind that pushed it up over the hill north we had to call in more resources.)IN ALL EIGHT DEPARTMENTS FOUGHT THE FORTY FOOT FLAMES...FORCING THE BLAZE BACK FROM FRIGHTENED HOME OWNERS.("lee stoltenberg, homeowner: I was concerned because the wind was blowing this direction there is a lot of dead trees up here. So if there had been some sparks it could have caught fire.")IT WASN'T EASY... THE BURING MARSHLAND IN THE HEADWATERS OF CUNNINGHAM LAKE, IS TREACHEROUS TERRAIN FOR TANKER TRUCKS.("trying to get two different spots with the creek beds running through it made it difficult to get to certain areas. We could only get to certain places with the trucks")AS THE SUN SET... GLOWING EMBERS...SIGNALED VICTORY FOR FIREFIGHTERS IN A STRENUOUS BATTLE.WHILE THANKFUL HOMEOWNERS RETREATED TO THEIR BEDROOMS...HAPPY THEY'LL BE TUCKING IN AND NOT PACKING OUT.(If hit had kept going I would be really concerned. ) FIREFIGHTERS WILL CONTINUE TO FOAM AND RAKE HOTSPOTS THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. IN ALL... THE FIRE BURNED THREE HUNDRDD ACRES. LIVE AT CUNNINGHAM LAKE, DAVE ROBERTS, KETV NW7.

300 acres burned at Cunningham Lake

Firefighters spent the night working hot spots at a fire that burned about 300 acres near Cunningham Lake on Wednesday.